Somewhere, there’s a paper that will not get written. Before there’s a scientific paper, someone has to be there to ask the right question, design the

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The Publish, Review, Curate (PRC) model re-imagines scholarly publishing by breaking the traditional publishing process into three distinct, independently executable stages: publish, review, and cu…

Summary: This Editorial offers an honest look at impact factor trends in developmental biology, explains how Development serves its community, and makes the case that sustaining developmental biology ...

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ABSTRACT. Journals build identities to attract authors and subscribers. Name changes make the stakes explicit. This article explains how the plain Journal of Embryology and Experimental Morphology (JE...

Biology Open | The Company of Biologists Fast & Fair peer review A new initiative offering high-quality peer review within 7 working days of submission Biology Open (BiO) has embar...

Novelty, Co-option and Divergence During Gene Network Evolution Recent studies on the evolution of novel traits provide a window of opportunity to understand how existing gene-regulatory networks (GRN...

100 extraordinary biologists As we are celebrating the 100th anniversary of The Company of Biologists, we are looking back at some of the amazing accomplishments in the field and the researchers behind them. Extraordinary has many faces and there are many more people who have helped shape the field of biology and The Company of[...] Read More

It is with great sadness that the University shares the news of the death of Professor Sir John Gurdon, founder of the Gurdon Institute.

In 2014, Development organised the first of The Company of Biologists’ Journal Meetings: ‘From Stem Cells to Human Development’. Conceived to help bring together the developmental biology and stem cel...

ABSTRACT. In an era of expanding reproductive possibilities, the human embryo has come to represent both immense potential and profound constraint. Advances in medically assisted reproduction (MAR) ha...

In June, we published an FAQ for authors and librarians to give some guidance on how they might respond to NIH’s accelerated implementation of its public access plan, which requires immediate avail…

When Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory announced the launch of bioRxiv in November 2013, only the braver or more radical amongst us would have predicted that it heralded a lasting change within the scienc...